The cochineal is a tiny insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico. Female cochineals spend most of their lives with their heads buried in juicy cactus pads, eating and grow ...

Lots of languages and species are going extinct, but because others keep getting found or described, the official counts of ...

We need to have an honest conversation about smoking: The problem with smoking is that it is way more than just a physical addiction. Smoking creates a temporary problem and offers an ...

There's a strange, unexplained feature of the Cosmic Microwave Background which seems to be aligned with the Solar System, ...

A Siberian squirrel mother feeds her babies to build their strength throughout the winter. But once Spring arrives, these youngsters must take to the skies themselves.

A manned mission to Mars presents a huge array of challenges for scientists and explorers to figure out. Chief among them: how to keep humans sane and relatively content on the isolati ...

This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horiz ...

In 2023, the ostensibly authoritative World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that non-sugar sweeteners “not be used as a ...

The flat earther community seems to be growing, and it's beginning to worry me. It's not just a question of lacking science ...

You'd think that there are some features that, once an animal group evolved to have them, could never really go away, right?

Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a volcano, making hot springs and geysers a natural part of the landscape. These ...

Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a ...